Earlier this month,
Limitless director Neil Burger it was introduced as the new director of the upcoming video-game-to-film adaption of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Here are a few details from the upcoming project from Burger himself.
On the current status of the project:
"Mainly we're beginning from scratch and going back to the videogame," says Burger, who hasn't even looked at former director David O. Russell's plans for the project, "...It's really one of the most cinematic videogames, and one that has really developed characters. So, you know, there's a lot of cool, really intense things that, if they work for the film's story, I want to use them."
On Nathan Fillion playing Nathan Drake:
"I think he's a good actor," Burger adds, "[But] I think there's a lot of really good actors who don't even look like [Nathan Drake] who could play it. Where we are right now is that we're literally starting from scratch on the screenplay, and I think that once we finish it, then we'll go to actors and see who's available and who's right for the parts. Whenever that happens."
On his intended tone for the movie:
"It's [The Bourne Identity] really up to date in its own way," he says, "'The Bourne Identity' isn't your father's Cold War movie and [similarly]this is a very different kind of treasure hunt movie. It's very real and it has kind of an insane, wild feeling that comes out of the character; Nate being this con man and a bit of a hustler, living by his wits, ballsy and capable of anything."
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